Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-22 Thread Peter Merchant
On 22/01/15 21:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive, So the DVD is a good one so why does it not work on the laptop, which it the same drive it was burned on? Only thing I can think of, given the DVD starts OK and you get the menu offering Mint to boot, is to edit its kernel command line and rem

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, > So the DVD is a good one so why does it not work on the laptop, which > it the same drive it was burned on? Only thing I can think of, given the DVD starts OK and you get the menu offering Mint to boot, is to edit its kernel command line and remove `splash' and `quiet' as I said befor

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-22 Thread C A Wills
Well, tried all suggestions with little return except I tried my DVD on our desktop machine and it worked! So the DVD is a good one so why does it not work on the laptop, which it the same drive it was burned on? I still can't re-install the new copy of Mint until I get a DVD that works. Peter

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, > It's the DVD text menu showing Mint 17.1 and Memcheck, so booted from > DVD. Select Mint and that's when it goes to blank screen and nothing > more happens. OK, there's probably a means of using that menu to edit the command line that boots Mint. Look for "splash" and "quiet". Remo

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, > Used Brasero to burn image to DVD, checksum OK, rebooted laptop and > selected Mint 17.1 from boot menu, Is that the BIOS boot menu offering you a choice of media to boot from, and "Mint 17.1" is the name of your burnt DVD, or has it already booted from DVD at that point and that's th

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On 21/01/15 10:11, Clive Wills wrote: Hi all I've been trying to burn a 'Live' disk/USB of Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64bit without any luck and would like to know what I'm doing wrong. So far have done the following:- Downloaded The ISO image from the main web site via a UK mirror, software is on th

[Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Clive Wills
Hi all I've been trying to burn a 'Live' disk/USB of Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64bit without any luck and would like to know what I'm doing wrong. So far have done the following:- Downloaded The ISO image from the main web site via a UK mirror, software is on the desktop so it's easy to find. Used Br